WINNIPEG - Shabbat, the seventh day of the Jewish week, "is something one enters into body and soul, or you could say it enters into your body and soul," says Rabbi Alan Green of Winnipeg's Shaarey Zedek Congregation.

Green said although Shabbat is observed from a few minutes before sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday and the appearance of three stars, it can be experienced anytime.

Although the pocket change is welcome (the most Tan's made in a two- or three-hour session was $60), it's the opportunity to share his talents and God's love through the universal language of music that matters most, he said.

A few minutes after landing in Africa last month, Pope Benedict delivered a stern warning against the "unconditional surrender to the law of the market or that of finance" in Africa and throughout the global economic system.

His words were immediately seized upon by those wondering where the pope stood on a recent Vatican document that proposed the creation of a world political authority to regulate financial markets and rein in the "inequalities and distortions of capitalist development."